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Life with Photographs: 75 Years of the Eastman Museum
October 5, 2024–August 31, 2025
Main Galleries
Zig Jackson: The Journey of Rising Buffalo
May 10–November 9, 2025
Project Gallery
Selections from the Collection
June 14, 2025–June 14, 2026
Collection Gallery
Seeing & Being Seen: LGBTQ+ Visions of Rochester
May 17–October 26, 2025
Gallery Obscura
Three City Symphonies by László Moholy-Nagy
June 3–August 17, 2025
Multipurpose Hall
Special Displays

Colorama
On view now
George Eastman Museum
The Colorama was one of the longest running corporate advertising campaigns of the twentieth century. First conceived by Eastman Kodak Company in 1949, when Waldo B. Potter was its director of advertising operations, these massive backlit transparencies were designed to demonstrate the brilliance of color photography. Neil Montanus (American, 1927–2019) photographed 55 Coloramas–the most of any photographer. A graduate of Rochester Institute of Technology, Montanus was hired by Eastman Kodak as a staff photographer in 1954. Montanus’s picture was the second Colorama to depict the site of the Incan city of Machu Picchu.

Philip Seymour Hoffman Sculpture
On view now
George Eastman Museum
A bronze sculpture of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman is installed outside the Dryden Theatre at the George Eastman Museum.
Upcoming Exhibitions

American, born Hungary: Kertész, Capa, and the Hungarian American Photographic Legacy
September 26, 2025–March 1, 2026
Main Galleries
American, born Hungary: Kertész, Capa, and the Hungarian American Photographic Legacy examines the pioneering artistry that emerged out of backdrops of persecution and perseverance.

Peggy Ahwesh: The Night Sky
August 19–November 2, 2025
Multipurpose Hall
The Night Sky is a pair of experimental videos that evoke the sensation of being outside during the summertime, as the evening twilight fades into the darkness of night. Using time-lapse cinematography combined with long exposures, Ahwesh’s camera points skywards as illuminated terrestrial features emerge, shift, and recede against the vastness of space.

Erica Baum: the bite in the ribbon—a paper show
November 22, 2025–June 7, 2026
Project Gallery
Through the selection, manipulation, and reproduction of existing printed materials, Erica Baum creates a poetry of word and image that inspires close looking and close reading.
Past Exhibitions
Selections from the Collection
September 30, 2023–June 1, 2025
Collection Gallery
George Eastman Story Lab
May 18, 2024–June 1, 2025
Sitting Room
Lindsay McIntyre: Ajjigiingiluktaaqtugut (We Are All Different)
March 4–May 28, 2025
Multipurpose Hall
Flower City Arts Center: Studio 678 Photo Club 2024/2025
March 15–May 11, 2025
Gallery Obscura
Scene at Eastman
October 25, 2024–April 20, 2025
Project Gallery
Evoke: A Youthful Expression
November 16, 2024–March 9, 2025
Gallery Obscura
Lumière: Discovered
January 11–March 2, 2025
Multipurpose Hall
Pass Us the Mic: We’ve Got Something to Say
June 22–November 10, 2024
Gallery Obscura
Lumière: Discovered
September 3–October 31, 2024
Multipurpose Hall
New Directions: Recent Acquisitions
March 16–October 6, 2024
Project Gallery
Crashing into the 60s: Film Posters from the Collection
February 2, 2024–September 8, 2024
Main Galleries
Mary Ellen Bute: Rhythms in Light
June 4–September 1, 2024
Multipurpose Hall